Introducing PABLO, The Light Painting Video App!

Ryan Warnberg and Michelle McSwain maybe better known as MRI Light Painting, the same folks that brought us the Light Bomber App have teamed up with Imperial Creation and released a cool new Light Painting Video App, YES VIDEO APP, called PABLO!. Pablo is a “Long-exposure photo and video app that creates visual works of art through light painting”. What I found most exciting about the App is that you can see your light paintings come to life with the live light painting video feature!

This technology is a much different process than just using a standard long exposure app for your phone. Obviously our phones don’t currently have a real shutter to leave open so how do you trick the phone into thinking it does? Well they created a custom algorithm that takes multiple one second exposures and merges them to produce a video and photo all in one. The team has been hard at work on this patent pending technology and it is pretty dang impressive, especially seeing the quality that is being produced on a phone. You see your light paintings come to life in real time and then you upload the visuals to your Pablo profile and then share your creations with the world. You can also share the videos and final image to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for now, with a feature for saving directly to your phone in the works.

The PABLO Light Painting App is just part of the story, building a strong Light Painting community within the App is also a really important part of this project Ryan said “Light Painting is best when it is collaborative. We worked to create not just a light painting video camera, but also a community around it, to act as a never-ending source of inspiration and encouragement for PABLO users.”

The App is fairly easy to use with slider settings for light sensitivity, exposure time, and shutter delay. They have a few videos showing the how to use the app here but I think Johnny A. from Stimulight the Night, who was asked to be a Beta tester, created a great tutorial video showing some of the features and images that can be created with it, so I will leave you with that. PABLO is free to download in the iTunes app store HERE, so make sure to check it out and YES there is a Android version coming soon. Enjoy.